Tough shit. They need to adapt their business model rather than whining that ad-blockers are hurting their bottom line. This is the same bullshit argument that network TV makes every so often with VCRs and DVRs.
More room, which means fewer discs (that is, for “DVD-quality” signals), and no need to get up in the middle of the movie to turn the disc over.
Case in point: the most recently released season sets for The Simpsons are on both DVD and Blu-Ray, even though the show hadn’t switched to widescreen or had any particularly “HD-worthy” animation yet; the Blu-Ray version uses fewer discs. (Okay, three instead of four, but you get the point.)
Actually, they’d switched to computer instead of traditional cels by these seasons, and they do look a lot cleaner (even when broadcast originally) than older seasons. On bluray they’re downright gorgeous, even if still in a near square shape.
They stuck a few “bonus” episodes from older seasons on the bluray set, and there’s a real difference between them and the ones from the main season of the set.
Except PS3 didn’t exactly sell like hotcakes the first several years it was out. By the time Sony’s Playstation department finally got their act together, HD-DVD was already dead.
720p TV’s are still all over the place. Walk in to Walmart, Target, K-Mart, any big box store, and you’ll find plenty of 720p sets for sale. They’re the cheaper, low end standard. If you’re only looking at the high end feature laden giant 60+ inchers, well, maybe you wouldn’t see them, but you should have no trouble coming across one in the 40" and under category.
1080p maybe cheap now, but still tacks on a good hundred dollars or two beyond the price of a relatively comparable 720p. And the smaller the set, the less difference an average person’s going to be able to see between the two anyway.